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Technibilt, a supplier of healthcare storage and transport systems, helped a hospital in Vancouver completely reorganize their storage room, resulting in exceeded expectations and complete satisfaction from the customer.

Drucker Diagnostics, the leading manufacturer of benchtop centrifuges for reference labs, is pleased to provide hospital-based laboratories with the opportunity to purchase and use their popular DASH line of STAT centrifuges.

Radiology Oncology Systems is a global provider of refurbished radiation therapy and diagnostic imaging equipment. Connect with them on The Exchange to find equipment like imaging tables, gamma cameras, and more.

Join the OpenMarkets team every Tuesday at 1 pm EST for a simple tutorial on how to use The Exchange to buy and sell equipment smarter. Will include best practice tips and suggestions on
how Providers can maximize their equipment budget.

Join the Guthrie Health Finance & Supply Chain team as they discuss how they used OpenMarkets to completely revamp their capital process and move to a more online, transparent equipment buying program.

Tariffs on Chinese-manufactured imaging equipment is causing prices to rise. It's more important than ever to establish multiple options when evaluating the purchase of new X-Rays, CT Scanners and other key pieces of patient care equipment.

The price of beds and stretchers is rising as they get high-tech features added on. Using OpenMarkets to research your options and competitively shop for value is saving up to 52% when compared with the prices tracked by ECRI.

Exciting activity today on The OpenMarkets Exchange , with Harloff Manufacturing, a leading manufacturer of healthcare carts, collaborating up with team of stakeholders at Mt. Graham Regional Medical Center to finalize a transaction for Harloff's Deluxe Cast Cart.

When in the market to buy or sell ultrasound equipment, awareness of market trends and purchasing considerations is essential. OpenMarkets’ latest broadcast featured a roundtable discussion to assist in understanding the ultrasound market and highlighted new research on the capital purchasing process, ultrasound market overview and analysis, and insight into ...

Join OpenMarkets on January 25th at 12 noon EST for an online education broadcast on the ultrasound market. Industry experts will participate in a roundtable, discussing the state of the market and coming innovations.

The Guthrie Clinic had an emergency request for a bronchoscope, but didn't have the budget for a brand-new Olympus model. So they turned to The OpenMarkets Exchange and seamlessly worked with Surgical Direct on a win-win deal.

Bob Kolanko, Director of Materials Management at Weirton Medical Center in Weirton, WV, used The Exchange to quickly collaborate with four suppliers and find the right mammography chair for their new breast care center.

With more than 2,000 different equipment suppliers in healthcare, negotiating for ultrasounds, beds, ESU units, carts and other equipment products requires a thoughtful and practice approach. The presence of multiple stakeholders, rapid technology change and an uncertain regulatory environment only add to the challenges for supply chain, finance and clinical ...

With thousands of types of healthcare furniture and TVs in the U.S. today, there is fierce competition in the market for hospital-grade furniture and TVs. This overwhelming supply of products includes cabinets, chairs, desks, recliners, sofas, TVs and more. For clinical department directors and supply chain teams, having a simple, ...

Billie Jones, materials manger at 29-bed Graham Regional Medical Center, needed a simple, efficient way to find a suture cart. With the hospital located more than 2 hours from the closest metropolitan airport, Billie knows there's a more efficient way to find the right product than waiting for a supplier to show up. Enter The OpenMarkets Exchange.

Just in time to help radiologists and capital equipment procurement directors efficiently “work” the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) Annual Conference , the latest broadcast in the OpenMarkets Education series focused on why the show is important to both Imaging and Supply Chain teams, and how both teams can ...

There are multiple points of pain on both sides of an equipment transaction in today’s healthcare industry – for both providers and suppliers, all of which point to effective equipment negotiation as one way to buy more strategically. In this final installment in our series on seven key negotiating strategies, ...

Two members of the OpenMarkets community teamed up this week on The Exchange : Kettering Health Network of Dayton, OH and Oakworks Medical, a Pennsylvania-based manufacturer of a broad line of medical tables, patient positioning devices and accessories.

Todd Stanley of IU Health was recently named "Most Effective Radiology Director" of the year by his peers at AHRA. Now he'll join OpenMarkets and Philips Healthcare to talk strategy for how Supply Chain and Radiology Teams can proactively approach the big RSNA conference coming up later this month.

In a recent article in DotMed’s Healthcare Business daily news, Philips CEO Frans van Houten talks about Philips impressive 7-fold jump in Q1 profits and the changes Philips has made to reposition the company.

John Strong, President of Greenhealth Management and advisor to multiple healthcare supply chain stakeholders, will be presenting "Healthcare Landscape and Impact on Supply Chain" in a free OpenMarkets web broadcast on May 10th at 12pm EST.

Sean Poellnitz, Director of Contracting & Resource Utilization at CHRISTUS Health, outlines the reasons they manage their capital program from a position of transparency, and shared benefits that accrue to both CHRISTUS and their supplier partners as a result.

The challenges health system leaders face in identifying and acting on innovative ideas were the topic of the February 2017 broadcast in the OpenMarkets Healthcare Broadcast Series. OpenMarkets Senior Vice President Tom Derrick was joined by Maryam Salah, Vice President of Programming at MATTER, Chicago’s healthcare innovation hub, in sharing examples and strategies from their work with startup companies, provider organizations, and equipment suppliers, along with six steps to successful innovation.

Maryam Saleh, Vice President of Programming at MATTER, will lead discussions on the topic “Bringing Innovation to Hospitals” in a new broadcast for the OpenMarkets Education Series, slated for Thursday, February 23, at 12 p.m. EST/9 a.m. PST.